Finally watched season 2.

I’m convinced that Luthen - and almost certainly his formidable partner - will stake everything, including their own lives, to secure Mon Mothma’s escape when she’s most vulnerable. We’ve already watched Luthen shed his trademark composure for a fiercer, more desperate edge: he bent his “code” by allowing Mothma’s sister to defy orders and rejoin her partner, and he tactically nudged Bix toward her vengeance. Meanwhile, Mon Mothma’s simmering rage has even pushed her to openly confront Director Krennic himself.

In the episodes ahead—after the ISB’s ruthless assault on Ghorman and the Empire’s cruelty reaches new heights—both Luthen and Mon Mothma will snap. I can vividly imagine Mon Mothma’s polished façade cracking in a flash of raw emotion, and Luthen, without hesitation, stepping into grave danger to shield her, sacrificing himself so she can continue the rebellion.

I can see something like this of a structure:

• Ghorman massacre
• Mon Mothma holds speech
• Krennic deems Mon Mothma a threat to the Empire, and calls her to his office/ISB Headquarters/shows up to her whereabouts
• Luthen hears about the Massacre and Mothma’s speech, tries to get reach of her - realizes she’s in danger
• Mon Mothma confronts ISB/Krennic in raw emotion, shit hits the fan, Luthen shows up, escalation - Luthen and his partner reveal themselves for who they are; rebels, gives the impression that Mon Mothma is some emotional senator he doesn’t respect to divert attention, kill some ISB men, injure Krennic and dies.

Modernization Process - Tattooine

One of the biggest challenges in modernizing this edit of A New Hope was Tatooine:
alongside the outdated center channel audio, its sun-baked exteriors really highlight the original’s age. The cameras of 1977 simply struggled with such harsh light: you’d see blurred faces, out-of-focus areas, shadows that vanished and reappeared, overly pink skin tones, and droids glowing with lens flare as the camera panned past. Each of these issues has now been carefully corrected.

Next came the color grade. Today’s films—think Denis Villeneuve’s Dune—carry a refined, sun-washed palette that feels like a modern Tatooine, so I used that as my visual benchmark. But one single grade can’t work across every scene in a forty-plus-year-old movie, so each sequence was masked and treated individually: varying grain levels from my master blueprint were applied, then backgrounds and faces that remained soft or low-res were upscaled, remasked, and graded again to match the crispness of the rest of the film. It’s a complex, iterative process—but the result is spectacular.

Seeing A New Hope in this updated form is genuinely thrilling. The film retains all the magic of the original, but with a level of clarity and polish that feels right at home on a modern big screen. Now, of course, 720p with a comparison line inbetween doesn’t give the crispness or scale of the work that has been done, but it does give the main impression:

Video Preview:

https://streamable.com/bmfy4n

Now, I’m not finished - there is still more work to be done on the center channel (dialogue), I still want to compress the music, and there are still a couple of overly exposed droid reflections in some background areas. But it’s nearly there.

Luke Twin Suns

In one of Star Wars’s key scenes, the twinsuns scene, Luke’s face is unfocused and blurry - in almost every single version out there. Not anymore.

https://streamable.com/au48s4

oojason said:

An insightful and informative 9 minute video on how Andor came about, Tony Gilroy’s involvement, and how it all evolved…
 

[… rest] …

Man, I love this guy. I have immense admiration for him: he not only grasps the depth of his universe and breathes life into his storytelling, but also embodies the art of filmmaking — seamlessly fusing these three pillars into a truly fulfilling experience for everyone involved and for the audience.

I’m not going to find myself interested in anything Star Wars-related for a long time after this (i saw the upcoming projects recently and nearly fell asleep), but if this guy was to be hired for a Star Wars movie set between ROTJ and TFA or something… i’d buy popcorn 4 years in advance. Or, when I think about it, maybe not 4 years with Disney’s history of firing directors. Heuheu.

This thread is dedicated to discussing and reviewing Andor, where I’ve shared my genuine appreciation and my relief that everything—from performances to promotional materials—remains focused on the story itself. It’s astonishing that this simple point has been missed amid your well-turned phrases. And yes, that was a compliment - you sure know how to write, you just can’t seperate what you write and believe in from being opinions to educational masterpieces.

If you’d rather have a battle of wits and political beliefs, send me a private message. Ever since I argued - about three years ago now - that Star Wars needed to dial back on its gender-politics emphasis and “this actor wants to change the world from this to this”, you’ve persistently tried to bait me into derailing my original review or critique - with you obviously getting triggered behind walls of text because it contradicted your belief system.

You’re probably a great person - non-binary, a guy, a girl - whatever you are, i really don’t care - but you gotta let is rest, dude. Oh my. Let it rest. My screen is bleeding through with whatever it is that angers you so much.

Anyway, I’ll keep on being me and you keep on being you - different people, different beliefs - and hopefully both in the end good people. But this is the last time I’m ever going to let you derail my views and thoughts into some meaningless battle of wits.

I don’t know where you’re going with this, but the way i’m seeing it:

Tony Gilroy calling Andor “the most important work I’ve ever done” isn’t a dig at other Star Wars shows or a signal that it’s merely a political stunt. It’s an admission of how deeply he invested in its storytelling—from the moral complexity of rebellion to the echoes of past (and some current) authoritarianism—and how that creative challenge has meant more to him personally and professionally than anything else he’s made. In short, he’s celebrating its narrative ambition and real historic resonance, not turning it into a gender-politics spectacle or a stage for some unknowns to shout out chants of their personal conflics and goals in life. It’s just a bunch of people collectively going in on one goal; a good fucking story.

Him and his team are literally re-telling WW2 Nazi Germany in space, but unlike George’s Star Wars it isn’t just on surface level - it’s digging deep, hence the emotional and historical resonance he must’ve felt writing it.

Omni said:

Anjohan said:

In other words, brilliant job, Disney, and keep hiring and focusing on Star Wars stories and character above anything else - and leave the real-life politics to the politicians. This is for the fans. ❤️

Hilarious comment considering that these three episodes are BY FAR the most political Disney Star Wars has ever been. It’s not very subtle, either.

1. I’m refering to season 1. Yet to start season 2.

2. You glossed over my key words: real-life politics - trying, at least, to refer to the current geopolitical climate at this current time, although i left room to misinterpret - whether you wanted to do that purposefully or not.

3. I shall rephrase: they are not announcing Andor as a gender empowerment or a geopolitical landscape on which actors can change the world on; they’re just trying to make a good story, and that is what the series is, has been presented as and has left the audience with.

Finally watched Andor and it is sure the best Star Wars Disney has produced. It has the details and patience of better call Saul (although I suspect it will go total speed run now after ep 3) and the charm and grittiness of Empire Strikes Back.

I would never think that putting story and characters above anything else would bring out so much value for the audience. 😉

I hope the final scene of Andor ends just before the opening of Rogue one, but with The Emperor showing up, telling other Governors to leave the room, and frying the absolute shi* out of whomever will inevitably fail him (either the female or male antagonist for sure, or both). Watching it in the context of Andor where not a single force user is present would give so much earned shock value to what most people would find a cheap and predictable trope.

In other words, brilliant job, Disney, and keep hiring and focusing on Star Wars stories and character above anything else - and leave the real-life politics to the politicians. This is for the fans. ❤️

Thank you, lads. Appreciated.

Thank you Patali and Hal. We’ll see how far i get before the summer break - but at least then i have more hours to crunch.

CamSMurph said:

Anjohan said:

Update - Destruction of Alderaan

Thanks for the patience.

Here’s a little update, Alderaan:

https://streamable.com/n9ry01

Looks like you’re doing more than modernising the audio and visual look, bro! 👀

In my new line of work, I’ve… been cursed with a lot of new tools. Hehe. But yes - you know me.

Thank you so much.

Film 10 is almost done, but i was T satisfied with the pace. All visual effects are done, and audio 98 percent.

But the pacing felt off to me, although my gf felt it was good enough for release. But I disagree.

This one only. Dont have enough time or interest for more unfortunately.

Thank you.

Update - Destruction of Alderaan

Thanks for the patience.

Here’s a little update, Alderaan:

https://streamable.com/n9ry01

Thank you for continued interest. Life’s been really busy these last couple of years, so big projects like this and Game of Thrones finale has been hard to do due to the amount of work needed to do them.

I am most interested in continuing this soon, hopefully during the summer break.

Thank you for your kind replies, PM’s and patience. Here is an update:

Update for Film X

Finally I’ve made some major progress. The main achilles heel of Film X was a very VFX-demanding scene I had to pull off to sell the emotional whiplash of the ending - and the one big scene that kind of shifts the entire story narrative as the audience are originally used to it unfolding. In other words; If i didn’t pull of this scene to preferable quality, the entire ending would fall flat and just be another “slightly tweaked” GoT ending that just doesn’t work for me nor the ending I’m going for.

I know I’m always very coy when it comes to these updates, but that is because I want to have some surprises, and a last gut-punch for the audience in good, old GoT-fashion. Hopefully, now with the heavy (and expensive!!) VFX work out of the way, I can go on and finetune the audio mix and some ending parts and hopefully release rather soon.

Also:

I’ve finally found the time to add the series to the IFDB, and I know a lot of you have wanted this for a long time. Please feel free to leave a review. 😃

https://fanedit.org/game-of-thrones-film-i-x-the-film-edits-anjohan/

Jedi Matt said:

I personally wouldn’t mind seeing Daisey Ridley reprise the role of Rey in the future. I’m not sure how it could happen with all the on again, off again revolving door action going on at Disney HQ. Who knows what will happen? I’m not even sure the Disney Execs know. I guess time will tell.

The entire point of leaking development news was probably to test the waters for a Rey movie. Since the hype died after one day they probably settled on only having her appear as cameo’s or in a “main” line of films and/or TV shows rather than her own standalone. A correct choice indeed, in a disney world of bad ones.

“This will begin to make things right”.

They need to focus on original stuff. Mando and Grogu (just delete most of the connection to season 3), and the other two that worked (haven’t seen Andor or Skeleton’s Crew but I know they’ve performed well and are well-liked).

Disney officially now stepping out of gender politics and reshaping Disney behind the scenes will save Star Wars and soon we will have quality again. Oh - and give Obi-Wan and Anakin/Vader two seperate show’s to remedy the mistakes of Obi-Wan Series, with a proper budget and a couple of Andor’s quality writers.

• Added subtitles for CoS and HbP Ultimate Editions.
• Updated Sorcerer’s Stone Revisited with a new audiomix that should now have fixed some unbalancing and/or lack of audio quality as reported by vranir. Also took the oppurtunity to add post credits music (that was somewhat muted) as well as fix some color grade balancing where I saw fit. I recommend all to replace SS Ultimate Edition with the new one for a way better (audio) experience as well as some color grade evening.

Oh, and; merry christmas!

Thank you.

Film X is very close, but I’m still not completely satisfied. Closer to release than anything else I have on my sleeve as of now.

I’m a wizard, Cammy.

honestabe said:

Thanks for the Thanksgiving holiday present (if you are in the USA).

Based on the runtime of the movie, it looks like you included most of the deleted scenes from HBP. Out of curiosity, which ones did you leave out?

I’m in Europe, but I’m happy it brought some thanksgiving joy.

I left out Harry and Hermione discussing Malfoy on the map.

❤️ Thanks, guys.

OBS! I initally wanted to cut way more, like Slughorn saying yes to go to Hogwarts, Aragog burial and Ron at the Hospital Wing, because none of them further the plot at all, but I know many people enjoy Half-Blood Prince so much that it would probably make hearts bleed. Also, I’ve already cut 7 min of the original runtime - most of which are poor attempts at comedy or simply too revealing to the story, so I think Ultimate Edition does a good job at balancing all the different tones of the film well and much better than the original did.

I might do a more compact version for myself, as I find those three scenes to drag down the pacing and mystery of the film. I might upload two versions (this one being the "Extended Ultimate Edition) if there is interest.

I hope the color grading in and out of itself make people realize how beautifully shot HBP actually is, now that one can see key details for the first time ever… Again; what WERE they thinking with that original grade? Never looking back on the original ever again!

Oh, and once again; thanks to Chloe of Fanedit.org for her brilliant ideas.

Half-Blood Prince - Ultimate Edition is released.

😂😂😂😂 Oh man. The mouse house is as predictable as water in a river.

We deserve better.

Yes 😄